Goddammit, look! We live here and they live there. We black and they white. They got things and we ain’t. They do things and we can’t. It’s just like living in jail.

The speaker compresses the lived reality of Jim Crow segregation into a blunt spatial and material contrast: “here/there,” “black/white,” “got/ain’t,” “do/can’t.” The piling of parallel clauses mimics the relentlessness of structural inequality—separation is not merely social but enforced through access to goods, opportunities, and freedom of movement. The final simile, “like living in jail,” frames racism as a carceral condition: confinement without having committed a crime, maintained by law, custom, and violence. The profanity and imperative (“look!”) convey urgency and anger, suggesting a moment of awakening or forced recognition rather than detached commentary.